Cronulla Caringbah Sharks - Match Reports

Round 10

13B - Coach Glenn Brandtman

-VS– St Pats/Joeys – Won! 22-0

Congratulations to all the boys on a fine win today! First up we need to thank ALL the boys for their “never give up” attitude. They turn up for training every week, they turn up for the games ready to play every week and finally it has paid off! Our first win on the season, and how good did it feel??

Training has finally started to pay off; we took what we trained for onto the field today and it was great. We need to keep playing as a team and backing your team mates on the inside and outside. Defense today was awesome, as a result, zero points were scored against you. Attack was also awesome bringing you a 22-0 result.

There were no prizes for the player of the match this week, no ONE player stood out. I really couldn’t decide, you all played as one, as a team. Next week is Gymea 1 at home… you guys up for it??

Cheers, Glenn, Peter & Mark


Round 9

7 Green - Coach Mick Servante

-VS- ENGADINE – LOST 34-4

Today was always going to be a tough assignment as the team not only had to take on the competition leaders, but they had to do it without the on-field guidance of Mick.

The boys started well, with Brooklyn scoring a runaway try after weaving through the defence. Unfortunately as the game progressed the team forgot a lot of the basics from training and the scoreboard suffered as a result.

We need to make sure we all get back in the defensive line quickly and move up together to smother the defence. Our tackling is letting us down also, stop using your hands only – get in there with your shoulders like we practise on Thursday nights and you will see the difference.

Without Brooklyn’s amazing tackling technique the scorers would have developed RSI from all the tries Engadine could have scored. Brooklyn was supported well by Ashton, Ethan and Keyari with Dane, Mihaka and Dominic not far behind. Charlie had a great game from dummy half with his clear calls and directions – unfortunately the team needed to stand so close to him in the ruck that Mick turned grey on the spot.

Come on team spread out and give yourself some room to move. Special mention to ‘Cannonball’ Bayliss and his organic mouth guard (i.e. orange peel) and his team playing attitude – good on ya Bay!

Cheers
Pete

13A - Coach Greg Hearnden

-VS- ST PATS/JOEYS – WON 24 -18

Great to crack a win this week coming from behind to defeat St Pats/Joeys.
All the boys performed well after a shakey start when we ran into touch or droped the ball on the ZERO tackle on our first three sets.We then settled down to play some pretty good footy led by our awesome halfback Adam.

Liam had another strong game scoring a great try and Julian had a super game I think scoring 2. Mitch was outstanding at fullback as well. Hopefully we will get some self belief out of this as our second rd games have ALL been an improvement on the first.

Pity we cant buy a home game as we head back to Corea....again this Saturday.

GH


Round 8

7 Green - Coach Mick Servante

-VS- MENAI ROOSTERS – LOST 30-28

The team took the field with the ambition of winning two games on the trot...a record for the team!

The plan started well with solid defence from Keyari, Dominic and Dane up the middle of the field. Supported out wide by Brooklyn’s dazzling defence and with Ethan keeping them honest, Menai struggled to break the line. Ashton and Dominic played out of their skins today, chasing, tackling and Dominic even scored his first try – well done mate.

Solid runs by Mihaka, Bayliss and Rainer found the gaps in play allowing Brooklyn and Ethan to cross for 2 and 3 tries respectively. With the final bell sounded and Cronulla in front, the boys lost their intensity and allowed Menai to cross for a match winning try.

A close result for a fantastic match.

Pete

14A - Coach Kendall Flint

-VS- YARRAWARRAH – LOST 24 - 20

An absolute nightmare of a start to the game by the boys with Yarra up by 18 – 0 before we had a possession.

Running into a strong wind the guys turned it around with 2 quick tries and went into half time 18 – 10. With no favours from the man in the middle we were up against it with only 13 players for the game and against the two time defending premiers the boys really showed what this year means to them, winning the second half 10 – 6 we just ran out of time to take the win.

A great kick and chase game and super defence, apart from the 1st 8 minutes, has set up the 2nd half of the year to play with some confidence.

Start training when training starts, not 10 minutes into it, because that’s what we are doing in the games. We start at the whistle.


Round 7

7 Green - Coach Mick Servante

-VS- GYMEA GORILLAS – WON 22-12

Outstanding team work saw the boys win their second game of the year against a determined Gymea outfit. Strong running by Charlie, Brooklyn and Ethan opened the gaps in the defence allowing us to take the lead early in the match and once in front, we never fell behind for the rest of the match.

Strong defence by Bayliss, Keyari and Dominic made the Gorilla’s work hard to break the line. Some highlights of the match were – Ashton and Mihaka’s strong runs down the sideline; Brooklyn’s crunching tackles and Rainer showing his development in recent weeks by making good yards forward – we just need to make the field wider to fit him on the field and stop him running out!

A big welcome back to Dane after his arm fracture, good to see you back out there and getting amongst it.

Well done boys, a well deserved win.

Mick and Pete

14A - Coach Kendall Flint

-VS- DE LA SALLE – WON 18-12

A great effort that we can build on from the boys against De La. A lot of dropped ball at pivotal times in the 1st half made things difficult for us but we grinded our way to a 10-8 lead at the break.

The 2nd half started the same way for us and De La scored to make it 12-10 and were doing the little things right, but this week the boys decided to play two halves of football and really dug deep in defence and the forwards never stopped taking the ball forward allowing us score out wide.

Then driving the final nail into the coffin one of our forwards slammed the ball over the line for a great and well deserved win, many of the spectators think that the ball is still in the ground.


Round 5

7 Green - Coach Mick Servante

With a full team back on deck (and even a reserve), the boys started the match enthusiastically hoping to build on their “Maiden Victory” the week before. Great to have Keyari, Mihaka and Dominic back, you were all greatly missed.

With the game commenced, Como got out to an early lead, exploiting some of our weaknesses in defence. In the first third, the boys seemed to forget the importance of moving up in a line to meet the defence, instead depending on Bayliss, Ethan and Brook to clean up the Como line breaks.

Brook’s defence technique is always a talking point from everyone on the sideline and this week he again didn’t disappoint pulling off try saving tackles that would make an NRL ad look boring! Keep it up Brook.

The team then settled into the rest of the game and remembered some of the principles Mick is reinforcing at training. Strong runs by Ashton, Dominic, Mihaka and Rainer inspired the rest of the team to lift and even encouraged offloads to keep the play going. Keyari’s and Charlie’s control around the ruck helped the team gain some crucial ground when it was needed. Great break away tries to Brooklyn capitalised on these gains – keep it up everyone.

After a hard fought victory, Como walked away with the spoils. All the team had fun as did the spectators watching the game. Remember boys, listen to Mick and work as a team – if you do, another victory won’t be far away!

Cheers
Pete


11C - Coach Joey Pawa

-VS- ENGADINE DRAGONS – WON 14-6
After last weeks close game the boys return home to Captain Cook with fire in their eyes.

With just the bare numbers, eleven players we take to the field to play Engadine Dragons and a very hot and hard day it would prove to be for us.
Christian, Ethan, and George were psyching themselves up for battle.
Max and Ben made some blinding runs down the field.

Jacob was never far from the action which resulted in a try to him to put us up 4 nil.

Unfortunately the kick at goal from Ethan missed, unlucky mate, just to the left.
Engadine got back to good field position and scored just before the half time break to level up and with the conversion going over left the score 6-4 down at half time.

A half time talk and a lot of water, brains were switched back on and out we went for the next stanzas. Our defence was not broken from the kick-off and that provided a hard fort game.

Dillon and Cassidy's barnstorming runs gave them both tries at critical times to put us ahead 14-6 with a conversion by Adam Brooks.

Ryan's and Jac's strong tackling during the game saved some tries and really helped the team win today.

If we spread out in attack, like we do in defence, we will score more points boys, we need to trust each other.

Well done Dillon on you first try. I can tell there is many more to come, no mistaking that. Feels good doesn't mate!

Great second win guys .

Thanks to our cheer squad family & friends, canteen ladies, Neil our linesman and last but not least our manager Shelley.

See you all at the 11C's bonding BBQ,
Joey


Round 4

7 Green - Coach Mick Servante

-VS- YARRAWARRAH – WON 26-24

We started the match enthusiastically with only 6 players against a complete and competent opposition. The boys went ‘toe-to-toe’ on the attack, matching Yarrawarrah for points before achieving a one try advantage at the end of the first third. Tries by Brooklyn and Ethan kept us well and truly in the game and with our first conversion since starting the competition by Ethan, we had a lead. Quick play around the ruck and getting back in defence helped out.

Strong tackling by “Cannonball” Bayliss, Charlie and Rainer highlighted the gains we are making at practice. After a scoreless 2nd third the boys had their eyes on the cup in the final term of play. Weaving runs by Ashton, Brooklyn and Ethan kept us in front and ensured the team would not be denied their maiden victory in the normal competition. High fives and cheers went through the team and the supporters as the final whistle blew.

Congratulations to Mick and the boys who showed you can mix fun with success, even when you play short!

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the team back next week, hope everyone has recovered.

Cheers
Pete


11C - Coach Joey Pawa

-VS- DE LA SALLE – LOST 22-16
A very good effort this week, we knew we would be in for a hard game after being beaten by them in the first round 34-0.

During the last two weeks positional changes, due to injury, have slowly come together and its great to see the new players improving even if some are playing out of position.

Defence was a little bit slow to get going in the first half, going to the break 16-nil down.

A rest ,a drink, a break and constructive talk proved helpful.
We come back firing in the second half.

The forwards really took it to them and look fantastic in attack. The backs with limited opportunity made some great line breaks. Two tries to our scoring hero Jacob Sheridan, going over in the corners and the run away train Cassidy Grealish getting one, showing some great speed.

Safe kicks by Christian Woods and Adam Brooks but more points on the board.
Max Hippe and Adam Brooks were hand fulls at times for the other team to stop them.

With our defence lifted, it caused a lot of drop ball from them. A second half turnaround looked like it was working with scores locked 16 all with 3mins to go.
Unfortunately pressure got the better of us on this occasion and a drop ball by us gave them the ball five meters off our line and proved too hard to keep them out .

Outstanding effort from everyone in the 11c's. Your teamwork is wonderful and it's great to see there is no I's in this team.
Thanks again to all parents for their help in canteen, BBQ, training and running the line.

See you all at training this week,
Cheers Joey


Round 3

11C - Coach Joey Pawa

-VS- GYMEA – LOST 26-0

It was a beautiful hot Saturday and would like to say the Easter break and wet weather done us good but I can't. The boys tried hard against a strong Gymea side but we were out play and looked tired at times.

Jac was tackling his heart out followed closely by Jarrod George and Ben.
Some hard running lead by Cassidy, Jacob and Dillion keep the fans cheering.
The first half was a nightmare 20 nil but a drink and a talk worked a little bit of magic, we only let in one try in the second half to lose 26 nil.

The second half was a outstanding effort by all of the boys , the whole team absolute awesome in so lets get back training hard and we will turn this around.
Boys we have to go back to the basics We have to all move up in defence and spread the ball in attack to the faster players out wide.

Thanks to the parents who help out in canteen and BBQ; Also thanks Neil, our lines man, as well as Mark and Shelley for their efforts

Cheers Joey


Round 2

9A - Coach Luke Anderson

-VS- AQUINAS – WON 28-0

A well played game by all the boys. Slowly things we are doing at training are been taken onto the field, which is great. There were some great tries by the boys and nearly every goal kick conversion was kicked. We are starting to come together as a team and with more work at training we will play even more as a team instead of individuals. The best thing about our first 2 games is that we have kept the opposition to zero which is great defense so next training session I will keep my part of the deal and for half the session we will play games that you choose.

Man of the match went to Ollie and Paul.
Boys we will also from now on have a training award for each week.

I would like to welcome our sponsors Salmon Buckets, Stylecraft and Alberts Corner Store, your support is much appreciated and we look forward to a fun successful year with you all.

I hope every has a safe and happy Easter break and the boys don't eat to much chocolate.

Training will resume on Thursday 28th April at 5.00pm and our next game will be on sat 30th April.

Our new training times and days after that weekend will be Mondays 4.30pm and Thursdays at 5.00pm.

Well done boys good results, keep training hard and listening and having fun!

Luke, Lordy and Kizza.


Round 1

7 Green - Coach Mick Servante

Hello everyone and welcome to the footy season, I suggest 7 Green had a good start to the season with our young Cronulla Caringbah Sharks delivering a quality game of footy!

We also need to start by extending a warm Cronulla Caringbah welcome to the 4 players new to the club. Aiden, Benji , Jamal and Andre. These boys are already proving to be a great asset to our team.

Our season got off to a little bit of a rough start, coming up against last year’s premiers Gymea. Although we were behind 24-0 at full time I think we gave a good account of ourselves, getting used to our new positions against a team who have been together for some time. The score flattered the home team.
They say a week is a long time in football and round 2 proved this old cliché to be on the money. We turned up a much more structured and determined team against Taren Point. And with that, the first half points came. Using good hard running up the middle and spreading the ball wide to our flying centres and wingers.

It’s good to see you guys using the tools you learned at training. Experimenting with positional changes was the order of the second half and you all seemed to enjoy yourselves no matter where you played - although we did seem to switch off a little defence. Remember boys we are an A team with the ability to give this comp a real shake, but we need stay switched on 100% of the time at both and training and during the game.

Overall performance has been pleasing, we need to get ready quicker when defending and keep our eyes on the ball. We all need some passing practice and to learn to spread out. Most of all we need to get down on our belly to score the try! Mum will wash your jumper so lets get dirty!
Train well and use what you learn and the rewards will come finals time. I’m truly excited about the prospects of this team and can’t wait for round 3.

Hope you all have great holidays,
Nige


11B - Coach Peter Geraghty

This was the first game of footy ever for Jonah Crisp, Khane Chidester, Casey Temple and Lewis Dart. Lewis and Casey both scored 2 tries each! Jonah kicked a brilliant goal and Khane had 9 hit ups from his second row position!

Amazing stuff for 4 brand new kids to footy. The rest of our team played just as brilliant, well done boys, great start to the season.


13A - Coach Greg Hearnden

-VS- COMO JANNALI – WON 26-22

What a cracker for the first game. The Mo's were runners up in the Bs last year so we weren't sure what to expect. They had an enormous player who could run and before I could get comfortable on my seat we were down 16-0. We simply could not contain their number 8 until Yibby put a grasscutting tackle on him and brought him down. This seemed to lift the boys.

We finally got some field position and came up with some points. Drai and Harry scored some good tries then with 5 to go we finally surged ahead to win. While we made a lot of errors we played some good footy in patches. Adam and Jai organised the side really well and Jacks defence was awesome. Had 3 players playing their first game in A grade and all went really well.

New players, new coach, new trainers it will take a little while to get in a groove. Nice to start the 2011 season with a win. C u at training. GH, Neil and Josh.


14A - Coach Kendall Flint

-VS- AQUINAS – WON 24-4

A sound start to the season with a 24-4 win over Aquinas.
The boys started very well and concentrating on our defence, went to the break 10-0 up but running into a stiff breeze in the 2nd half, things would get tougher.

Playing with only 12 men for most of the 2nd half, our forwards paved the way with massive efforts from Brock Ilett, Dane & Jackson Flint and Terry Kelly, really giving our backs the go forward they needed.

Taking advantage of the blind sides that Aquinas provided us with we won the 2nd half 14-4 scoring some good tries out wide followed up by some great goal kicking. Good effort boys.